The author of this short observation is unknown:

ORIGINAL CHINESE PROVERB:  Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.

2012 WHITE HOUSE REVISION:  Give a man a welfare check, a free cell phone with unlimited free minutes, cash for his clunker, food stamps, section 8 housing, free contraceptives, Medicaide,ninety-nine weeks of unemployment, free meds, and he will vote Democratic for the rest of his life: even after he’s deceased.

H/T to Ken H.